Our WORST FAILS in 110,000 track days!

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  • čas přidán 19. 05. 2024
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Komentáře • 69

  • @JunaidAzizChannel
    @JunaidAzizChannel Před 25 dny +55

    Loved the meticulous use of words to describe dress code choices

    • @evns7142
      @evns7142 Před 21 dnem +1

      The sun tan lotion part had me cracking up 😂 his track days have more action than some nightclubs

  • @clintonw1055
    @clintonw1055 Před 24 dny +29

    I had a front row seat for that buzzard as the right seat instructor... he came out of NOWHERE - swooped across just over the top of the wall. Novice driver was a stud - taking the hit straight on and coming to a safe stop off the track. We even got a courtesy ride in the ambulance after we brushed off the debris 😂

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 24 dny +5

      wow, Clinton! Imagine running into you on a YT comments page! Where ya been? Whatcha doin'? 🙂

  • @kylem2010GT
    @kylem2010GT Před 25 dny +15

    I'm getting into trackdays and I really liked this episode. Pointing out common points of error on circuits all over America!

  • @EdBolian
    @EdBolian Před 25 dny +22

    I met Mark at the NSXPO event in Atlanta this year. It is amazing what he has built Chin into. Plenty of great days and plenty of rough moments!

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 25 dny +4

      great to get to know you, Ed! Glad we could do this bit together. Thanks!

  • @charliesschroedinger
    @charliesschroedinger Před 25 dny +28

    "... every track has a character."
    Thompson Speedway's character is a 42 year old hammershnitzeled guy on a lawn mower 😂😂😂

    • @kcspeed9980
      @kcspeed9980 Před 25 dny +2

      YES! Did a 24hr lemons race there in 2021. One of the most “entertaining” layouts I’ve ever experienced. Only had one incident resulting in no contact but did manage to do a full 360 and at some point ended up perpendicular to a 4door Lincoln looking through his side window and the largest eyes I’ve ever seen!

    • @charliesschroedinger
      @charliesschroedinger Před 25 dny +1

      @@kcspeed9980 that's AWESOME!! my brother and I have wanted to do a Lemon's

    • @kcspeed9980
      @kcspeed9980 Před 25 dny +2

      @@charliesschroedinger Do it! I’m the first to say WE DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE DOING! and we don’t have a huge budget. But if you split the cost between 4 guys it’s like $800 per person for the weekend, met a team with 12 drivers! Driving form 8-5 partying from 5-2. It’s awesome!

    • @charliesschroedinger
      @charliesschroedinger Před 25 dny

      @kcspeed9980 soon as my brother's schedule allows!!!

  • @AmandaBaker-qy7cr
    @AmandaBaker-qy7cr Před 25 dny +27

    Love your unique style, never change!

  • @LapoftheWorld
    @LapoftheWorld Před 23 dny +2

    Hell yeah! Great to see Mark on the channel. I've run with MANY track day providers and Chin is top-shelf.

  • @samuelgoodman2825
    @samuelgoodman2825 Před 24 dny +6

    This man is the most track savy guest you have ever had.

  • @nicholasohara12
    @nicholasohara12 Před 24 dny +3

    Mark and Chin Track Days are truly the Gold Standard in HPDE.

  • @Slimothy
    @Slimothy Před 25 dny +14

    *That intro clip lmao*

  • @guccipucci69420
    @guccipucci69420 Před 24 dny +2

    Good old vinwiki is back. These are the kinds of guests we like!!

  • @ICKY427
    @ICKY427 Před 25 dny +8

    i ran at road atlanta back in 2013 or 14 i think it was. a ctsv wagon completely blew t1 and rolled through the gravel. i didn't see it happen but i was in the paddock and saw it roll in on a flatbed, roof caved in, all the airbags blown. later in the day i saw the car DRIVE out if the paddock out onto the main road, smoke(dust? airbag powder?) billowing out of it. i HEARD (never confirmed) that it was a rental, so my guess is that it wasnt supposed to be on a track and the guy was gonna go park it in a ditch and claim the accident happened there. wasnt a chin event, it was mvp track time

    • @j.sargent9172
      @j.sargent9172 Před 24 dny

      He probably got arrested for insurance fraud, they definitely had gps in a rental ctsv

  • @VINwiki
    @VINwiki  Před 25 dny +10

    Have you ever had a bad day at a race track?

    • @AnomalousOne1401
      @AnomalousOne1401 Před 25 dny

      A bad day that ended good. Daytona July 2001, my son and I arrived early and grabbed a beer. I took one sip of mine and I collapsed. The EMTs arrived and put the heart monitor on me. My heart rate was 212 bpm. They took me to Halifax, but refused to let my son ride with me. Of all things, my son walked to the hospital. The ER doctor got my heart rate down to normal and discharged me. My son wanted me to wait there while he went back for the car. I told him No Way! I made him a promise and we're going back to the race. So, we walked back and it was a Historical night. The race was historical and the ass chewing I got from my "wife at the time" was way too historical!

    • @charliesschroedinger
      @charliesschroedinger Před 25 dny +1

      Only day I ever had at one up in NH. Caught a wicked case of the STASNTAW's (S__t Through A Screen....Not Touch A Wire 😝😝) the morning of. Never made it. 😑😶

    • @AnomalousOne1401
      @AnomalousOne1401 Před 25 dny +1

      @@charliesschroedinger Ouch! That's a bad track day.

    • @SosopChabot
      @SosopChabot Před 25 dny +2

      Yes, hit the wall, broke my bike in half and my back

    • @charliesschroedinger
      @charliesschroedinger Před 25 dny +1

      @@AnomalousOne1401 oh there were tracks... just laid in my UU's. 🤣🤣

  • @DTEL77
    @DTEL77 Před 24 dny +1

    Thank you Bridgestone, great tires and supporting the car hobby.

  • @alpicotte4804
    @alpicotte4804 Před 21 dnem

    so cool to see Mark on Vinwiki!

  • @stuffhappens5681
    @stuffhappens5681 Před 24 dny +2

    Never heard of Ferrari flying in parts for a customer at a track day. Horatio is doing things right.

  • @Stadpad
    @Stadpad Před 25 dny +2

    Great stories

  • @Rekuzan
    @Rekuzan Před 24 dny +1

    "BIRDSTRIKE, WE'VE GOT A BIRDSTRIKE, WE'RE GOIN' DOWN!"

  • @jesseellington342
    @jesseellington342 Před 22 dny

    I enjoyed the description of the misc accident prone turns. I know them all. I instruct for chin, guess I’m lucky my car isn’t classified as “ high hp” so never had my problems at those places. Big HP + hubris causes big cost crashes.

  • @craigtiano3455
    @craigtiano3455 Před 25 dny +1

    I had a similar buzzard incident, at 80mph on the freeway. The whole passenger side of the windscreen was destroyed, You couldn't see anything out that side. The driver's side had a very small area (about the size of a license plate) where I could see through the "stars". Fortunately, the bird fell out of the windscreen (I did get feathers inside) as I slowed. After limping along the breakdown lane, I was able to get off the freeway onto a 2 lane road. I drove the car home, about 4 miles, slowly. Fortunately, I didn't pass any police (although I did pass the police station!) who would have undoubtedly made me stop driving the obviously unsafe vehicle.

  • @tripletrash
    @tripletrash Před 25 dny +1

    There looked to be a few still photos of motorsports ranch houston there. Not 100% but it looked very similar.

  • @LeadFarmer1597
    @LeadFarmer1597 Před 24 dny +1

    "The most expensive car that we have seen crashed...I will qualify that it wasn't a crash"

  • @tjmmcd1
    @tjmmcd1 Před 23 dny

    Descriptions without photos?

  • @GaryMilgrom
    @GaryMilgrom Před 23 dny +1

    HA! I have never crashed at Road Atlanta's turn 5. 🙂 NEVER! Now let's talk about 3, 6, 7 etc.

  • @littlejack59
    @littlejack59 Před 23 dny +1

    how does bro remember all of this

  • @Wbfuhn
    @Wbfuhn Před 24 dny

    How many practice laps do drivers get before racing?

    • @USM3C
      @USM3C Před 24 dny +1

      There is no racing with Chin Track Days, it's all essentially practice.

  • @jkraljik
    @jkraljik Před 24 dny

    Wow...
    Guy's been organizing track days since 18th century. That's some impressive shit...

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 24 dny

      I don't write the caption... it's 110,000 driver entries. Each of those entries is one track day for one driver, right? Over ~1200 track events in 25 yrs.

    • @jkraljik
      @jkraljik Před 24 dny

      @@chintrackdaysmark566 All cool, but the caption says exactly this... Effin clickbait!

  • @jetdriver
    @jetdriver Před 24 dny +1

    Shame that as he is describing these spots that are trouble pictures or video illustrating what he’s talking about couldn’t have been included. Heck how about just a pic of the corner itself.

  • @FortniteDad12
    @FortniteDad12 Před 25 dny +1

    If my cars cost millions id fly people parts too lol

    • @stuffhappens5681
      @stuffhappens5681 Před 24 dny

      Ferrari would yawn and say you shouldn’t have broken our car. You’d get the parts in a month if you’re lucky.

  • @petegeorge6605
    @petegeorge6605 Před 24 dny

    Damn daddy is very handsome!

  • @19RocknRolla88
    @19RocknRolla88 Před 25 dny +2

    you hit a what!?

    • @19RocknRolla88
      @19RocknRolla88 Před 25 dny +2

      I thought that this is the story of the Porsche hitting the Pagani.

  • @TheSandman121212
    @TheSandman121212 Před 8 dny

    wtf is the difference between driver right and right?

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 8 dny

      a spectator viewing the track has different orientation than the driver, mirror image. In motorsports, it is standard practice to describe conditions from driver's POV.

  • @simonsund
    @simonsund Před 8 dny

    110,000 track days??? one track day every day 7 days a week is 301.9 years!!

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 8 dny

      110,000 total track day participants. Around ~1800 total days on track.

  • @a-verybasic2
    @a-verybasic2 Před 24 dny

    Moral of the story- do not track a car you care about !

  • @smokeybear390
    @smokeybear390 Před 24 dny +1

    Lmao "the axle broke and the wheel came off" buddy is it a 67 Chevelle with a straight axle, like yeah the wheel was off, yeah the Axle was broke
    Obviously a ball joint failed and the knuckle came off lol

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 24 dny

      definitely not. stub axle sheared at the inner CV joint where it joins the transaxle. Turns out, I saw it in person... 😉

  • @yugotime1598
    @yugotime1598 Před 24 dny

    Who is Chin?

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 24 dny +1

      my partner is a man named Chin who founded the company in 1999. I got involved beginning in 2001.

  • @brandonford8092
    @brandonford8092 Před 25 dny +1

    .....

  • @lucaslandrum2512
    @lucaslandrum2512 Před 24 dny

    To do 110,000 track days you would have too go Monday to Sunday for 301 and a half years so nice try buddy😂

    • @chintrackdaysmark566
      @chintrackdaysmark566 Před 24 dny

      pay attention: it's 110,000 DRIVER ENTRIES. Over 1200 track days in 25 yrs.

  • @robertstahl8835
    @robertstahl8835 Před 24 dny +1

    This guy is awful.... 'The most expensive car we've seen crashed is a car that didn't even crash'.